Peter Bol (runner)

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For the Sinologist, see Peter Bol (historian).
Peter Bol
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Peter Bol in 2017
Personal information
Birth name Peter Bol
Nationality Australian
Born (1994-02-22) 22 February 1994 (age 30)
Khartoum, Sudan
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 800 metres
University team Curtin University[1]
Club St Kevins Athletics Club
Team Athletics Australia
Coached by Justin Rinaldi
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 1:44.00 AR (Paris 2022)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 800 m

Nagmeldin "Peter" Bol (born 22 February 1994)[2] is an Australian middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. He placed fourth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Bol represented Australia in the men's 800 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is the Oceanian record holder for the event. In January 2023, it was announced that he had been provisionally suspended by Athletics Australia after failed out-of-competition doping test, with the test showing signs of synthetic EPO.[3][4] On 14 February, it was reported that his suspension had been lifted as his B sample returned an atypical finding (ATF) for EPO, but Sport Integrity Australia would continue investigation.[5]

Early life and education

Bol was born on 22 February 1994 in Khartoum, Sudan.[6] His mother is Sudanese, and his father from the region that is now South Sudan.[7] His family fled the civil war in Sudan when he was four.[8] In 2016, it was falsely[7][9][10][11] reported that they lived in an Egyptian refugee camp for four years before emigrating to Australia.[8] In August 2021, Bol wrote in The West Australian that "despite what some people have said and written, we never lived in a refugee camp."[9][10] According to Media Watch, the false story originated with a 2016 article in The Sydney Morning Herald.[11]

At the age of eight, Bol arrived in Toowoomba, Queensland.[8] He grew up in Perth and attended St Norbert College[6] on a basketball scholarship.[7] In 2017, he completed a degree in construction management at Curtin University.[6][7] As of 2021, he was intending to train as an engineer.[7]

Athletics career

Bol was a promising basketballer in Perth, Western Australia. When he was 16, a teacher at St Norbert College suggested he try 800 metres running after a promising cross-country race.[6]

In 2013, Bol won the junior men's 800 m at the Australian Athletics Championships in a personal best time of 1:48.90.[6] In December 2015, he moved from Perth to Melbourne to train with coach Justin Rinaldi, who also coached joint national record holder Alexander Rowe.[6]

In 2016, he ran two Olympic qualifying times (1:45.78 and 1:45.41) and was selected on the Australian team for the 2016 Rio Olympics.[12] At the Games, Bol finished sixth in his heat with a time of 1:49.36.[2]

At the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, he finished seventh in his heat in a time of 1:49.65.[13]

In June 2018 at an IAAF meet in Stockholm, Sweden, he set a personal best of 1:44.56 in the 800 m defeating training partner Joseph Deng.[12]

He was eliminated in the heats of his signature event at the 2019 World Championships held in Doha, Qatar, running 1:46.92.[2]

At the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Bol came first in his semi-final with a personal best time of 1:44:11. He then came fourth in the tactical final missing out on a bronze medal by 0.53 of a second. The winning Emmanuel Korir's time of 1:45.06 was slower than the time that Bol had accomplished in his heat.[14]

He set a new Oceania and Australian record of 1:44.00 in June 2022 at the Paris Diamond League. This was the third time he has lowered the national record in the 800 m.[15] That year Bol finished seventh in his specialty at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon with a time of 1:45.51 before claiming the silver medal at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 1:47.66.[2]

Achievements

International competitions

Representing  Australia
Year Competition Venue Position Event
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 41st (h) 800 m 1:49.36
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 38th (h) 800 m 1:49.65
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 31st (h) 800 m 1:46.92
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 4th 800 m 1:45.92
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 7th 800 m 1:45.51
Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 2nd 800 m 1:47.66

Circuit wins, and National titles

Personal bests

References

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Further reading

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External links

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